If you're, say, between 30 and 40, Counting Crows need no introduction.
They were the coffeehouse darlings in the mid-90s alternative boom, the jangly, sensitive bunch among the flannelled hordes. If Kurt was punk-meets-Pixies, Counting Crows' Adam Duritz was Dylan and Van Morrison, hungover and spiritually hungry on a sunny California afternoon.
'Mr. Jones' still sounds great when it comes on in a bar, and perhaps you canoodled — or cried — to their album track 'Colorblind,' featured on the Cruel Intentions soundtrack.
They're playing with fellow 90s rockers Toad the Wet Sprocket at ACL on July 30. Don't think of it as re-living your youth, Lamar Union — it's a great musical moment that hasn't ended.
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